I migrated to indesign purely because of this problem. I had the latest version and tried absolutely everything as the client was not happy. In the end I had to totally redesign a 40 page catalogue in Insesign and lost a lot of money because of it.

To create text with a drop shadow, put the text in a box with a background of None, and apply the drop shadow to the box.

When you apply drop shadows to several nongrouped items, the items can cast shadows on each other if they overlap. When you apply a drop shadow to a group, however, the group as a whole casts a single shadow.

You must have Drop Shadow XTensions software loaded in order to open a project that uses drop shadows.

Actually, drop-shadows give us headaches in Quark all the time. Most of the time for us it gives us the ghosted outline of all the bounding boxes that the shadow touches. A lot of time we go back and make them in Photoshop and re-import them into Quark. Then we go back to InDesign and make jokes about Quark around the office.

Actually, drop-shadows give us headaches in Quark all the time. Most of the time for us it gives us the ghosted outline of all the bounding boxes that the shadow touches. A lot of time we go back and make them in Photoshop and re-import them into Quark. Then we go back to InDesign and make jokes about Quark around the office.

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